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...hope that at least some of you would pursue an interest in, a career in government service,” he added. Although Negroponte was a graduate of Harvard’s Ivy rival Yale, he was a Harvard graduate student for a brief stint. Negroponte retold the story of how he enrolled at Harvard Law School 46 years ago. He was only there for a week, however, before learning that he was admitted to the Foreign Service. He said when he told the dean, Erwin N. Griswold, that he was leaving, Griswold gave him a look that suggested Negroponte...
Although there are many situations that warrant the use of an exclamation point, a legal brief being submitted to the Supreme Court probably isn't one of them. But Teddy Gordon may have been too revved up to restrain his grammar. The Louisville, Ky., attorney, who has long dreamed of arguing before the highest court in the land and who in recent months had a sign in his office that said "Washington D.C. or Bust," has been on a mission to overturn the racial guidelines Kentucky's Jefferson County adopted to keep its public schools integrated. The student-assignment policy...
...PRESIDENT IS ABOUT TO GET A LOT OF reality therapy. The Baker-Hamilton commission's work has been compared to a family intervention for a substance-addicted cousin, but unlike those encounters, this one won't remain behind closed doors. The entire 10-person commission will brief the President this Wednesday and then repeat the lesson for congressional leaders, both incoming and outgoing, later the same day. What happens next is designed to be even more convincing: several days of nonstop interviews on every media outlet, network and cable-TV station--a media blitz that will run well into...
...there was ever a good time for George W. Bush to leave home for a spell, it was right after the mid-term elections, when Capitol Hill was aswarm with triumphant Democrats. He spent two weeks abroad, separated by a brief Thanksgiving interlude at Camp David. Air Force One, the Boeing 747 that has its own medical facility, among other amenities, circled the globe twice, serving Swiss burgers and taco salad, with snicker-doodles for dessert. On the ground in Amman, the White House staff did grapple with local dishes like chicken frekah and homemade knafeh. The President and First...
...here's probably why you folks aren't feeling so good: Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock? Well, they're getting a divorce--sad news. You know, it was a brief marriage. Friends actually noticed that the couple started drifting apart during the ceremony." DAVID LETTERMAN...